WILTON — The Board of Selectmen, at its regular meeting Monday night, covered several items briefly. The following is a summary of those items:

• The board unanimously approved a land swap on the Keiser property easement, moving the easement about 200 feet north — from one side of a field to the other — after property purchases in the vicinity necessitated the swap, according to Pat Sesto, the town’s director of environmental affairs.

“We purchased an easement on the Keiser property, and the property was sold,” Sesto said. “On the property just to the north of the Keiser property, the owner just closed on a five-acre property to the north.”

Sesto explained that state Public Act 490, enacted in 1963, played a part in this decision.

“The town has a 10-year commitment to Public Act 490, and the access way stands in the way,” Sesto said. “When the town purchased the easement, it had a steep drop-off, and it wouldn’t make a difference where you entered the (Aspetuck) Land Trust.

“We expect the vegetation windows to be maintained,” she said. “We get the same access and visual access, and we maintain the integrity of the access.”

PA 490 is the single most important land use legislation codified in the Connecticut General Statutes (CGS), according to the Connecticut Department of Agriculture.

The integrity of this act and the manner in which it is administered is vital to Connecticut’s working lands and natural resources, according to the state agency.

Connecticut landowners are the actual care-takers and taxpayers of this land. PA 490 enables these landowners to pay tax on PA 490 land at its current use value rather than highest value.

This critical component of PA 490 prevents the forced conversion of farm, forest and open space lands to more intensive uses as a result of property taxation that is incompatible with current land uses.

Sesto said it is 300 feet from the access point to the road, and the new access is clearer, with less of a drop-off. She added that the Aspetuck Land Trust “is very supportive” of the swap.

“We get to keep this two-acre field for another 10 years,” Sesto said.

• The board unanimously approved a motion to continue the service agreement with the Norwalk Transit District.

• Local attorney Michael Kaelin put forth as a candidate by the Republican Town Committee to replace Second Selectman Hal Clark, who resigned earlier this month, was unanimously approved as the newest member of the Board of Selectmen.

• The board was “comfortable” with a 1.5 percent pension cost of living adjustment for town employees for fiscal year 2015, unanimously approving the amount for the next budget. Sandy Dennies, Wilton’s chief financial officer, said the town paid $207,715 in pension cost of living adjustments for Fiscal Year 2014.

• First Selectman Bill Brennan announced that “phase one is complete” in the Yankee Gas pipeline installation project.

“The library is taking gas, and most of School Road is re-paved,” Brennan said. “They are very good contractors. Wolfpit Road will be done in the spring.”

Brennan said the Notre Dame School Sisters at 345 Belden Hill Road will play a part in phase two.

“The Sisters have questions on different aspects of the project, and our mutual goal is to make this decision,” Brennan said. “For the project next summer, we want a pipeline to Miller-Driscoll (School) before major construction starts. It is extremely important to do that.

“There is urgency because of the window with Yankee Gas. They are keen to do this,” Brennan added. “We have to deal with easements, and work on a state road, but they have been very cooperative. We can’t do this without the (Notre Dame School) Sisters.”

• Brennan said request for proposals are out for the Comstock Community Center building project, and they are due back by Dec. 4.

“Lead time is key,” Brennan said. “Window delivery is a key item. It is an 11-month project.”

• Brennan said the town is up to 33 miles of its 50-mile paving goal on the 127 miles of roads in Wilton.

“This year we got $300,000 to pave, and we did a few miles,” Brennan said. “(Paving) was done in a very efficient way. They are doing a good job. We have 127 miles of road in town. Actually it’s 254 miles when you consider you have two lanes on every road. That is a lot of road to plow.”

• On Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 11 a.m., Peter Rubino’s donated sculpture will be dedicated at the small piece of vacant town property on Hubbard Road.

Rubino generously offered an original sculpture piece to help develop a municipal sculpture program for Wilton Center.

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